“It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFilmFamiliarPhrasesLabeling Author:Ti West
“To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the audience and the characters. If you don't spend an adequate amount of time doing this, then how can you expect to scare anyone?” IfsCharacterAudienceBuildingAmountSpendingScareAdequateSpending Time Author:Ti West
“I don't really get that nervous about whether people like it. You can't do anything about that. It's more technical. You spend two years of your life obsessing, picturing sound details, and you work so hard to make a movie a certain way, that you get there, and you're like - is it loud enough or whatever, so that this experience with everybody in this room is the fairest chance I can get. And then if you like it, cool, and if you don't, whatever.” PeopleIfsWayYearsI CanTwoHardEnoughCertainSoundChanceRoomsDetailsNervousLoudTwo YearsYou Like ItObsessing Author:Ti West
“If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.” PeopleIfsI CanFilmCan DoShips Author:Ti West
“If you make just a straight scary movie, people are just - you don't know what they're thinking.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsScary Author:Ti West
“If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's not working. But we would show up, we would talk about it.” PeopleIfsTryingMeanShowsFiguresDirectorsPulling Author:Ti West
“Everything Jumpy could do [in Valley of Violence] was too much. If I put it in the movie you would all check out. When he wraps himself up in the blanket, that's as far as I could go, and that's not even close. The dog's amazing.” IfsToo MuchViolenceDogChecksValleysWrapsBlanket Author:Ti West
“It definitely could have been a horror story [Valley of Violence], oh my God, if the dog was impossible. So could the horses.” IfsHas BeensStoriesViolenceImpossibleDogHorrorHorseValleysCould Have BeenHorror Stories Author:Ti West
“Ethan [Hawke] just - they got along great. He got to act with a dog, for real, and it felt like Jumpy was acting with him. It was a surreal thing to watch. When you watch the movie [Valley of Violence], you just kind of accept it. But if you do think about how we show - there's a dog and a movie star interacting - and you buy it. That's crazy.” IfsThinkingKindRealShowsStarsFeltActingAcceptingWatchesViolenceCrazyDogValleysMovie StarSurrealInteracting Author:Ti West
“In general, I go to see the stuff that for me is, "Thank God for that actor, he's doing something that I never imagined; thank God for this filmmaker, because if this person didn't exist, this movie wouldn't exist." That's why I go to the movies. That, to me, is what's so exciting about this movie.” IfsPersonsActorsStuffExcitingFilmmakerThank God Author:Ti West
“It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.” IfsThinkingViolenceUniqueWesternMemorableClassicToneValleys Author:Ti West
“It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.” IfsLooksDifferentDoneViolenceIf I CouldBack In TimeGo Back In TimeIf I Could Go Back In Time Author:Ti West
